diff --git a/src/ocrmypdf/builtin_plugins/tesseract_ocr.py b/src/ocrmypdf/builtin_plugins/tesseract_ocr.py
index 6c530eca..ad6b6d85 100644
--- a/src/ocrmypdf/builtin_plugins/tesseract_ocr.py
+++ b/src/ocrmypdf/builtin_plugins/tesseract_ocr.py
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ def check_options(options):
         program='tesseract',
         package={'linux': 'tesseract-ocr'},
         version_checker=tesseract.version,
-        need_version='4.1.1',  # Ubuntu 20.04 version
+        need_version='4.1.1',  # Ubuntu 22.04 version (also 20.04)
         version_parser=tesseract.TesseractVersion,
     )